Improvement in apparatus for measuring liquids



F. H. HOUGHTON.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK H. HOUGHTON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

iMPFIOVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LIQUIDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,548, dated May 8, 1866.

-To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FRANK H. HOUGHTON, of the city of Brooklyn and State ot' New York, have invented a new and Valuable Improvement in Pumps for Fermented Liquors; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference heilig had to the annexed drawings, making apart of this specification, and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby any desired' amount of liquid in a fermented state may be drawn from the cask and be ready for use without regard to the gas or t'oam thereon.

To this end I attach to an ordinary heerpump the devices following, namely: tirst, a tube (marked A,) which extends from the beerpump to the glass globe B; second, in this tube I insert ,the cock O, which has one opening therein extending from side to side, and another at right angles therewith, which eX- tends from one side to the center and intersects the opening` iirst mentioned; third, the glass globe B is constructed with measuremarks on its side, as shown on Fig. Land has a movable metallic top thereto and a valveplug and spring therein, as shown at E on Fic'. 2. These measure-marks are designed to indicate the amount of liquor in the globe, and the valve and plug are designed to allow me to draw oft' the air in the globe when I desire to do so. The conduit or spout of my improvement is marked G.

My devicev is operated as follows, to wit: I first turn the cock O so that the main port or opening therein shall be on aline perlicndicular with the main tube and the other port shall be turned away from the conduit. I then pump as mnch beer into the globe as I may desire, the amount ot' which will be indicated by the measure-marks on said globe. It

will readily be perceived that having my beer in said globe the gas or foam will rise to the top thereof' and enable me to draw ot't'from the bottom ot` the same free from foam as much as I desire. To draw beer from this globe I turn the cock C till the short port is turned on a line horizontal with the conduit.

My device not only enables me to have as much beer settled and ready for use as I may choose to keep thus ready, thereby saving the time lost in allowing the gas to escape from thc top ot a measure, but it also furnishes a transparent reservoir, in which the amonnton hand may be accurately known.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

rIhe globe B, with measure-marks thereon, the valve and plug E, and cock O, with double ports, constructed, combined, and ar'- ranged substantially as and for the purposes specified.

FRANK H. HOUGHTON.

Witnesses T. M. K. MILLS, GHAs. H. TARLETON. 

